Abstract
A model was developed to simulate laboratory combustion tube experiments. This paper describes a one-dimensional simulator of three phases, gas, water and oil phases, and five components, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon oxides, water and oil, in which fluid flow, heat transfer, combustion and vaporization/condensation are appropriately modeled. A crude oil is a mixture of many hydrocarbons but in the simulator it is treated as one component, the physical and chemical properties of which vary consistently with pressure and temperature, so that the model developed is different from ordinary three phase, five component models. The applications demonstrate that the simulator can be used to interpret laboratory results and predict the effects of reservoir characteristics and operations.
